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By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Dry Beijing barely gets any winter precipitation, which makes this year’s Winter Games the first…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press A decision by Twitter and Facebook to ban former President Donald Trump a year ago has prompted…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former executive director of a surgical center who helped her physician husband bilk…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the White House were bracing for bad economic news. But instead they got a…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities, and foreign exchange…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: Amazon, Snap rise; Ford, Clorox…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Renewed legal challenges have been mounted in about half the states against a requirement from…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California gas utility must pay a nearly $10 million fine and reimburse…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a man who allegedly kidnapped an employee at the western Colorado ranch owned by…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fine art isn’t just nice to look at. It’s also attractive to criminals trying to…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will begin offering limited Saturday walk-in help for taxpayers this tax season.…
Continue ReadingBy DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The interior solicitor in the Biden administration says the mineral rights under the original…
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has continued its endorsement of Moderna’s…
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The message the U.S. jobs report sent Friday was a surprising one: Despite a surge in viral…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing lasers at airplanes and helicopters is becoming a bigger problem. The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that…
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It’s official: New York is now the largest sports betting market in America after just…
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican inquiry into Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election spurred on by former…
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is imposing sanctions on five senior members of Mali’s transitional government,…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has extended tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on most solar…
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Wall Street Journal’s publisher, News Corp., says it has been hacked,…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house…
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom says German ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been nominated to join its board of…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kohl’s says that recent offers to purchase the department store chain undervalue its…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada…
Continue ReadingBy ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A judge has suspended an order by Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister to halt border checks on…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is…
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hoped to get a grip on his government after weeks of scandal.…
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from the end of…
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